Miscellaneous Essays

The trans-national phenomenon of ethnic issues caused by increasing globalisation and cross-employment in various countries, migration of the people from one location to the other due to various reasons all bring out the effect of the global village on race and ethnicity.

New business models inspired by the new technology break down traditional boundaries between business partners, in essence making all participants in a business transaction part of an expansive extranet. For many companies, a web site becomes one of the main tools which help to connect the organization with potential customers and suppliers.

Every member of the re-organizing family will be profoundly affected by how the separating spouses each handle the emotional journey of divorce, by the access the children will have to both of their parents in the new two-household family, and by the financial arrangement made by the adults for their care and that of their children. 

The present research has identified that the pulmonary function tests are significant tools in the diagnosis of asthma. The different investigative modalities available for the diagnosis of asthma have two key fundamentals. These are the history or presence of respiratory symptoms consistent with asthma, and the demonstration of variable expiratory airflow obstruction.

With food production, there is selection and cultivation of those edible plants and animals in a selected area of land. As Jared Diamond exemplifies in his book, an acre of land is sure to produce more 'edible calories' as opposed to an untouched same equal area of land.

Among the biggest economic issues being discussed and debated in the world today are globalization and inequality in the distribution of income and wealth. Only on the first issue can one reasonably argue that the purported center of economic representations – mainstream academic economics – plays a leading role in the debate.

The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is commonly used in VoIP implementations. It provides the ability to integrate traditional voice services with web-based data services, which include self-based provisioning, instant messaging, presence, and mobility services.

For this purpose, military assistance was given to South Vietnam in order to take action against North Vietnam. The War in Iraq was started by President George Bush because it was believed that Saddam's government was developing sophisticated nuclear weapons with Al Qaeda's cooperation.

Feminism has been defined as the “ advocacy of equal rights and opportunities for women, especially the extension of their activities into social and political life. ( the Macquarie Dictionary) It is very clear from this definition that women have been denied equality in society and also in politics.

According to the report the WTO helps to increase trade operations, make improvements in infrastructure development, and safeguard the interests of these countries when adopting measures. Having the basic subsistence level is not adequate, so a solid action plan needs to develop at some point in time.

The author provides some examples in the history of anti-Semitism: the Great Jewish Revolt against the Roman Empire; the First Crusade which resulted in the massacre of Jews; the Inquisition led by Torquemada and the Auto de fé against the Marrano Jews; as well as expulsions from Spain, France, Germany, and other countries in which the Jews had settled.

Combating drug addiction has been a very critical issue in all levels of the government such that it is found to be linked with various criminal cases. Recognizing the need for social concern about this matter, Gore Vidal and Morton Kondracke wrote their opposing statements with regards to legalizing drugs in order to solve this major problem in the society. Vidal states that the legalization of drugs would end the war, however, since even the government is making money out of its prohibition, the battle continues.

A nightclub is a club that is open at night, usually for drinking, dancing, and other entertainment. Nightclubs often have a bar and discothèque (usually known as disco) with a dance floor, laser lighting displays, and a stage for live music or a disc jockey (DJ) who plays recorded music.

However, these companies also have their fair share of challenges and mistakes. These shall be examined under the following criteria; In Shell, Corporate Governance challenges have been the order of the day. This was seen through a number of issues. Some twenty years ago, Shell was highly centralised in its exploration and production divisions which are also known as upstream sectors but very decentralised in its trading, marketing, chemicals and refining divisions; which are known as the downstream segments.

The main role or purpose of justice is to set limits, but the question is that can a state decide to follow no limits on benefits or losses. It is proven that almost every country of the world rely on force to implement justice, some countries use it less and some more than others.

As for the role of work, social life and relationships, they all have to take a back seat to their fears. Therefore I agree to the following positions below. Obsessive-compulsive disorder can be easily recognized. So far, there have been no reliable clinical tests for this condition.

"The woods are lovely, dark and deep" could refer to the luxuries and temptations of life: a holiday, a break from work, a short love affair, a long drive (in today's context), in short, anything that would be good for the senses and mind. When the whole world or circumstances are antagonistic, the person finds solace in these luxuries.

Along with medical and surgical therapy directed towards anatomical or pathological correction of the culprit lesions, risk factor modification by way of rehabilitative exercise programmes and life style modification of the patients in collaboration with other agencies that would serve as mentors for these individuals can reduce risks as evidenced by reduction in risk parameters.

Hank Williams Sr. is known as the father of contemporary country music. Being a guitarist and an influential songwriter, he became a national legend and his contributions to music are widely commended throughout the world. His short music career of 4 years ended at the age of 29 with him establishing the rules for all the country performers to come.

When Fleming rediscovered penicillin in 1928, it was developed into a major component used to fight disease-causing bacteria. It was a major life-saving drug used in World War II and was responsible for saving untold numbers of wounded veterans who would have to succumb to infection just 10 years earlier. By 1943, bacteria were becoming resistant.

Linguistic and Literary Issue 1: The discourse structure of a poem may be directly connected to its meaning and Dylan Thomas' "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" is an example of how the structure enhances the interpretation of the poem. Linguistic and Literary Issue 2: Villanelle, a fixed form in poetry, comprises of "five three-line stanzas (tercets), each rhyming aba, and a closing quatrain rhyming abaa," and the first and third lines repeat alternatively at the end of every stanza, culminating in the repetition of both as the final two lines of the poem.

(Gelsthorpe, 2002, page 106). Crime control values gives emphasis on the supposition of guiltiness and fault in such a manner that the law enforcement are perceived as acting in good faith with the intention that when they take somebody into custody it is for the reason that they are blameworthy and there is little for the courts to do other than nod through this judgment (Coleman & Norris, 2002 , page 140).

The book, "We Were Soldiers Once And Young" was written by retired Lieutenant General Hal Moore and war journalist and reporter Joseph L. Galloway, both of whom were at the battle of la Drang in November 1965 during the Vietnam War. This battle was said to be one of the first major battles between the United States Army and the People's Army of Vietnam in which this two-part battle took place between November 14 and November 18 of 1965 at two strategic locations of Plei Me found in the Central Highlands of South Vietnam.

Technically Speaking, SPC is a quality control technique that is used to estimate whether a process is within desired and permissible limits. Under the original quality control methodology, a product's quality is ascertained by examining the finished product for a predetermined set of features or standards.

Literature to develop the proposed study was drawn from peer-reviewed articles and databases primarily using the Google search engine and local university library documents. It is anticipated that this study will extend understandings of OCD, pathological gambling, and the contribution of CBT to the intervention of compulsive and or obsessive experiences.

It can refer to the technique of producing a genetically identical copy of an organism by replacing the nucleus of an unfertilized ovum with the nucleus of a body cell from the organism (http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asparticlekey=2756). In 1997, Dolly the Sheep was the first adult mammal cloned.

Based on the theory of the firm, the main objective of the firms is to maximize profits through a sustained competitive advantage. Consequently the economics and managerial decision making has to be related to the achievement of that advantage. The question is how to do it There are two key aspects that firms have to control, one of them is the visualization of the industry environment and the other is to have more heterogeneous and immobile resources.

Most freshwater occurs in the form of permanent ice or snow, locked up in Antarctica and Greenland, or in deep groundwater aquifers. The principal sources of water for human use are lakes, rivers, soil moisture, and relatively shallow groundwater basins. The usable portion of these sources is only about 200 000 km of water — less than 1 percent.

Contemporary researchers continue to debate whether or not Mars has a plate tectonic system similar to Earth.  This paper reviews considerations regarding plate tectonics on Mars.  Utilizing a review of literature, this paper also considers rocks one might find on Mars, as well as geophysical methods used to test the theory of Mars …will ADD AT END.

But again he now attributes the genesis of this rationality to a Marxian category and no longer a Weberian one: "The modern modes of thought already eroded by the reifying effects of the dominant commodity form" encourages purely "quantitative" analyses of society and not "qualitative" ones ((Feldman, 2005, 60)). 

Thailand is a country that became familiar with the West through the novel The King And I and its subsequent musical adaptation ‘Anna and the King of Siam’. The country is bordered by Burma, Cambodia and Malaysia. From 2004 onwards this relatively peaceful country has been experiencing conflicts with the Muslim population concentrated in the southern parts of the country.

They were all very willing to be interviewed and were most welcoming to the interviewer. One of the surprising discoveries about the interview process was that all the subjects interviewed were very delighted with being interviewed or simply talked to for a considerable length of time.

Having gained good enough experience and exposure in a well known Russian company, I found that in order to manage a task or a team one must have updated information about the art of management as well. Working as the Chief Technical Officer (CTO) in a famous system-integrator company of Russia, effectively managing the teams for an efficient output becomes a routine affair.

The report looks at the procurement of a school under the ‘develop and construct’ route through the PFI funding. The Private Fund Initiative began in the year 1992 in the UK. This was done in order to improve the quality of the project. The PFI is responsible for close to seventy well-known public structures in about fourteen countries.

Schmidt (Motor Control) incorporated the notion of generalized motor programs (GMPs), which allows for a single motor program to be used for the production of related movements by applying temporal parameters that specify the speed and size of individual movements.

American Liberalism in the 20th century is an ideology often associated with the philosophy of John Rawls. This idea of individualism and equality is the basic tenet of this contention in the field of politics. However, two other leading political philosophers of the previous and the present century contributed astute and fresh ideas to the liberal thought instituted by Rawls which in turn made the subject of American Liberalism a more controversial field of study in the present century.Rawls' Lecture II in his book a Theory of Justice put forward ideas on pluralism, individualism, equality and moral psychology (Rawls, 40).

Business enterprises are a significant part of society. As Lawrence, Weber, and Post (2005, pp.4-5) suggest, in today’s environment, economic activities are no longer detached from their surroundings but rather interconnected within an interactive social system that affects, inasmuch as it is affected by society.

The above-mentioned symptoms correlate with the disorder ‘Glycogen storage disease type IV’, also known as "Andersen's disease". It is a rare disease that leads to early death. Glucose, a source of energy, is stored in the liver and muscle in the form of its polymer, glycogen. The conversion of glucose to glycogen is a process of energy storage.

But one event which horrified me was the 8th October, Kashmir earthquake. I do not why but that particular incident effects me somewhere very deeply. World has been become more of the victim in the last few years. First we heard about the incident of giant tidal wave hitting such along belt of human population in the form of tsunami and then this horrifying earthquake.

Benedict suggests that our civilization is not just a product of those races, which were considered superior. Each race had its days and its own contribution to humankind. She talks about the Chinese inventions and Boston beans which were developed by the American Indians. The things that the world enjoys did not only come from the Europeans or Americans.

In his major works, Motivation and Personality (1954) and Toward a Psychology of Being (1962), Maslow argued that each person has a hierarchy of needs that must be satisfied, ranging from basic physiological requirements to love, esteem, and, finally, self-actualization.

For the above mentioned purpose it is very important that Xeleco pay attention to their human resources, so that they can retain their employees. This report gives an over view of Xeleco's human resources and their strategies for retaining employees. The Human Resources management system converts inputs, such as skills, abilities, motivation, potential, working time and vacancies, into outputs to produce improved skills, increased motivation, reduced absenteeism, reduced labour turnover, reduced accident rates, increased effectiveness and suitability-filled vacancies.

Detailed planning and execution is necessary for successful supply chain management. The successful supply chain management lies in the fact of identifying the critical business processes and ensuring the supply chain management to make them continuous. The critical business processes are those, without them the organization can sustain only for a short span of time.

Although children in England do not reach the majority until at least the age of eighteen, the law has almost twenty-five years has been moving towards empowering even quite young children in the arena of health care. As a result children of sixteen and seventeen, and even some under the age of sixteen, have been treated as adults through medical care.

Pentathlon, an athletic event of the Ancient Greek athletics which included five competition items, was an opportunity to the great Greeks to express their prowess or expertise in these items. Originated from the Greek words referring to five competitions, this has been a term of great prestige to the Greeks.

Born to the court musician and tenor singer Johann van Beethoven, his early years are spent on "thorough drilling" in order to attain his father's ambition of showcasing him as a child prodigy. This musical training has paid off enabling him to give his first piano performance at the age of eight.

They say that the earth is slowly being destroyed by man’s slow disregard for the planet he lives on. It is the rich imperialist that has allowed the standards of world protection to fall below what is considered ecologically friendly. Paul Driessen’s book considers the subject of the role of extremists in the environmental lobby.

Dreamliner 787 was given the monicker ‘plastic airplane’ because it is 50% composed of carbon fibre composites, which had replaced steel, aluminum, and other metals as structural components of airplanes. Mr. Alan Mullaly, Boeing president, expressed the intention to make this Dreamliner 100% carbon fibre composite in the future.

With these in mind, education then became an organized process with measurable results if the traditional view is employed, stressing that the acquisition of knowledge and skills are education's main goals. Many who hold this view oppose the informal methods and discipline of progressive educators.

In the given context, the Islamic Republic of Iran represents a peculiar case. Iran is an important nation that has a unique political system, which is a strange mix of democratically elected institutions and a parallel running theocratic framework endowed with massive powers and privileges.